The news was relayed back to the base camp of the success and the Times correspondent there sent the following message back to London – “Snow conditions bad. Advanced Base abandoned yesterday”. It was, of course, a coded message so that anyone who saw it would not be able to scoop the paper on its story. It read, to those who knew the pre-arranged code, “Summit reached-Hillary-Yesterday”. The news was broken in London on the morning of June 2nd, the day of the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.